Alien Lore 50 - The August 1945 New Mexico UFO crash

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In August 1945, a military mission passed through San Antonio, New Mexico on a recovery operation. The detail was from the White Sands Proving Grounds (where weeks earlier, an atomic bomb was exploded as a final test for the bomb the U.S. would drop in early August on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan). Soldiers in Army fatigues loaded what was left of a flying saucer onto a huge flatbed truck and hauled it away.

Two children--Remigio Baca and Jose Padilla, seven and nine years old--witnessed the aftermath of the crash that took place between about Aug. 20 and Aug. 25, 1945. Padilla and Baca later watched the military recovery work from a nearby hill.

The kids seem may have been the first people to see the crash site. They saw a long gash in the ground, and a saucer partially buried and a large field of debris. They believed the saucer was occupied by aliens that were still alive and moving after the crash.

They reported their discovery to Jose's father, Faustino Padilla, on whose ranch the craft had crashed. The military soon asked Faustino's permission to remove the flying saucer and debris.

This incident occurred well before the later, more publicized events at Roswell and Soccorro, and only resurfaced when Baca and Pedilla decided to tell their story.

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Jose and Remegio didn't talk to others about it on the advice of their parents and a police friend. Their parents didn't want the scrutiny and publicity (and scorn and derision) that would engender. As time went on, however, the import of what they had witnessed grew. There were more and more reports of Greys and UFOs all around the country, and especially in New Mexico.

You may remember the story of Lonnie Zamora's April 24, 1964 report of a "manned" UFO just south of Socorro, 10 miles north of this Padilla Ranch crash.

Jose and Remigio reunited a few years ago, after more than four decades out of contact (on the internet, of course!). This amazing event they had witnessed was a big topic of discussion. They decided to tell the story to a reporter, Ben Moffett, who had gone to grade school with them. The entire story by Moffett is collected on http://rense.com.

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